Raton Pass (1951)

Patricia Neal: Ann Challon

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• Ann Challon : You could have kept him out of there.

  Cy Van Cleave : Yeah, guess maybe I could've, if I'd tried.

  Ann Challon : You swaggering stupid fool. If anything happens to him...

  Cy Van Cleave : [slaps Ann across the face]  Some kind of talk I just can't listen to. Not even from a harpy like you.

• Ann Challon : [Giving him a drink]  What were you thinking about?

  Prentice : I was thinking about us. About this. Marc is due back in a day or two. We've got to tell him the minute he arrives and get out of here.

  Ann Challon : And leave this ranch?

  Prentice : There's nothing for you here. You were meant for something better than this kind of frontier existence.

  Ann Challon : Why is that? I hope so. I didn't realize it until I met you. Darling, you know I'll be happy anywhere if we can be together. It's just, well, this place means a lot to me. It means you. It's where we met.

• Marc Challon : Look, Ann, why don't you leave all that to me? I didn't marry a busineessman. This ranch doesn't need another manager. But I do need a wife. Why not just stick to that?

  Ann Challon : All I'm trying to do is help. Be a part of things. Everybody looks to Marc Challon for order or advice. Never to his wife.

• Marc Challon : [Looking out over his vast land']  Is that your fancy? The big country?

  Ann Challon : Is all of it yours?

  Marc Challon : As far as the eye can see.

  Ann Challon : It's magnificent. I never dreamt that anyone could have so much.

  Marc Challon : Having it's one thing. Keeping it is another. I don't mean to sound conceited, but...

  Ann Challon : Well, you have a right to be proud. All this land. Land's just land until somebody owns it... works it. Then it seems to lift you up.